GTA 6: every gameplay mechanic spotted in the leaked videos

🟡 Expected: the footage shows two distinctly different theft methods, and not just cosmetically.

• Copying the key. A longer, quieter interaction that triggers no alarm and no immediate reaction from bystanders. The vehicle stays usable afterward without drawing attention.
• Breaking the window. Fast, but loud: the alarm goes off and nearby residents or a patrol react almost instantly.

That's a clear break from GTA V, where stealing a car boiled down to a single action with no differentiated cost or risk. The trade-off feels closer to GTA IV, which already had a lockpicking minigame, but this time with a real stealth-versus-speed decision.

🔴 Speculative: the exact time each method takes, and whether some vehicles (reinforced locks, factory alarms) force one over the other. Nothing in the clips settles that.

One note before anything else: we don't relay or reproduce stills from the leaked videos, for the same reasons laid out in our August leaks breakdown. So this is a description, not an image.

🟡 Expected: the wheel displays categories arranged in sectors (handguns, rifles, heavy weapons, melee, items), with time slowing down noticeably when it opens — a principle closer to Red Dead Redemption 2 than GTA V's blunter wheel. Remaining ammo appears to show directly on each icon, without needing to confirm the selection first.

🔴 Speculative: the exact number of sectors, whether there's a dedicated slot for lockpicking or hacking tools, and whether the wheel differs between Jason and Lucia. None of that is clearly visible in the clips in circulation.

🟡 Expected: an interaction near the trunk would let you store and retrieve weapons instead of carrying them at all times. The point seems twofold: staying low-key in public (a visibly armed character draws attention from NPCs and police) and setting up a heist without getting noticed on approach.

🔴 Speculative: storage capacity, whether the feature is limited to certain vehicles (your own, a stolen one, a utility vehicle), and whether it has a measurable effect on the wanted level. It's certainly a mechanic the FiveM roleplay scene has wanted for years, given how central it is to community heist scenarios.

🟡 Expected: GTA 6 appears to carry over the principle already present in GTA V — a bank account that keeps money safe, including after the character dies — while adding a home safe option on top. The two systems would coexist rather than replace one another.

🔴 Speculative: why two separate storage spots exist. A plausible guess, by comparison with Red Dead Redemption 2's camp lockbox: the bank account could be exposed to a story event (a heist, a frozen account, a betrayal), while the home safe would be a fully private stash. Nothing confirms that reading for now — it's an inference, nothing more.

🟡 Expected: an ability triggered by holding a button highlights interactive elements on screen — a pickable door, a clue, a hidden enemy. The idea echoes L.A. Noire's detective mode or Red Dead Redemption 2's Eagle Eye, two references the community has already raised about the honor system spotted in the same videos.

🔴 Speculative: whether this ability is tied to a specific character (Lucia, whose backstory as a former inmate with a knack for careful scouting would fit), whether it's limited by time or a meter, and whether it only works in missions or also in open world. None of that is clear in the clips.

This is probably the most structural addition spotted so far, and it changes the equation compared to the whole series.

🟡 Expected: a knocked-out or killed NPC can be carried and moved, somewhat like the stealth mechanics in the Hitman games. Left out in the open, the body would eventually be discovered by an NPC or a patrol, triggering a reaction — an alert, a radio call, backup arriving — without the player necessarily being visible at the moment of discovery.

In every previous GTA, a body on the ground had no consequence of its own: it just disappeared, ignored by the rest of the world. If this holds up, it's a complete shift in how the game treats the fallout of violence — consistent with the honor system already spotted in the same footage.

🔴 Speculative: how long discovery takes, how big the resulting reaction is, and whether hiding a body (dumping it in water, stashing it in a trunk) avoids it entirely. These are open questions, not answers.

🟡 Expected: an arrow or marker appears at the edge of the screen to flag an enemy outside the field of view, a principle common in most third-person shooters but new to a numbered GTA. The benefit is obvious in multi-enemy gunfights, where GTA V offered no help of this kind.

🟡 Expected: as with most of the series' HUD elements, Rockstar will likely offer a toggle to turn it off, in line with the customizable HUD settings already found in GTA V and Red Dead Redemption 2.

🔴 Speculative: whether the indicator distinguishes armed enemies from mere witnesses, and whether it behaves differently depending on the current wanted level.

This one was already identified in our first leaks breakdown: a fuel gauge and an engine-condition gauge, separate from ordinary body damage, are visible on several vehicles in the newer footage analyzed since.

🟡 Expected: nothing changes on the substance compared to our first read — the mechanic looks real, its actual level of constraint remains unknown. We're only repeating it here to connect it to the rest of the interface covered in this piece: weapon wheel, car trunk and fuel gauge together paint an interface noticeably busier with information than GTA V's.

This is the detail that most refines what we thought we knew about the wanted level, first flagged in our August 21 breakdown.

🟡 Expected: stars don't all fill at once. An empty star (outline only, no color) appears as soon as a witness or camera spots you doing something suspicious, without the police formally identifying you yet. The star fills in progressively, and from two full stars onward, the police appear to have a genuine description on file: your outfit, your face, and your vehicle.

If that reading is accurate, it changes an entire strategy: changing clothes or vehicles before the stars fill in could be enough to shake the police completely, while doing the same once identified would no longer help. GTA V worked in a far more binary way — spotted or not, with no intermediate step.

🔴 Speculative: how fast a star fills, whether it depends on the type of crime committed, and whether changing your appearance actually works once you've been identified. All of that remains to be verified.

The rule stays the same as in our first breakdown: anything filmed in motion and cross-checked by several independent analysts is solid. Anything resting on a single screenshot or a lone interpretation should be treated as a hypothesis, not a fact.